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Encore Performance

How One Woman's Passion Helped a Town Tap Into Happiness

de Vicki G. Riordan, Brian Riordan ...

The inspiring true story of a woman who learned that it’s never too late to live the life you wantAs a young girl growing up in the 1950s in central Pennsylvania, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like Shirley Temple and Gene Kelly. She soon found her calling as a dance instructor, but like many baby boomers, she put her passion on hold to focus on starting a family. Only when her marriage ended ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

The inspiring true story of a woman who learned that it’s never too late to live the life you wantAs a young girl growing up in the 1950s in central Pennsylvania, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like Shirley Temple and Gene Kelly. She soon found her calling as a dance instructor, but like many baby boomers, she put her passion on hold to focus on starting a family. Only when her marriage ended
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Encore Performance (with embedded videos)

How One Woman's Passion Helped a Town Tap Into Happiness

de Vicki G. Riordan, Brian Riordan ...

To enhance your reading experience, this edition of Encore Performance contains embedded videos of the Tap Pups performing.The inspiring true story of a woman who learned that it’s never too late to live the life you wantAs a young girl growing up in the 1950s in central Pennsylvania, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like Shirley Temple and Gene Kelly. She soon found her calling as a dance ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

To enhance your reading experience, this edition of Encore Performance contains embedded videos of the Tap Pups performing.The inspiring true story of a woman who learned that it’s never too late to live the life you wantAs a young girl growing up in the 1950s in central Pennsylvania, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like Shirley Temple and Gene Kelly. She soon found her calling as a dance
... Leer más
Tap Dancing America : A Cultural History

A Cultural History

de Constance Valis Hill ...

Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne ... Leer más

$41.39 USD

Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne
... Leer más
Eleanor Powell

Born to Dance

de Paula Broussard, Lisa Royère ...

Series series Screen Classics
When considering the best dancers in Hollywood's history, some obvious names come to mind—Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Bill Robinson. Yet often overlooked is one of the most gifted and creative dancers of all time, Eleanor Powell. Powell's effervescent style, unmatched technical prowess in tap, and free-flowing musicality led MGM to build top-rate musicals around her unique talents, including ... Leer más

$32.79 USD

When considering the best dancers in Hollywood's history, some obvious names come to mind—Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Bill Robinson. Yet often overlooked is one of the most gifted and creative dancers of all time, Eleanor Powell. Powell's effervescent style, unmatched technical prowess in tap, and free-flowing musicality led MGM to build top-rate musicals around her unique talents, including
... Leer más
Ballroom Dancing

America's #1 Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing, Ballroom Dance Lessons, Ballroom Dance Costumes, Ballroom Dancing Shoes, Ballroom Dance Studio and Ballroom Dancing for Kids

de Bonita Pfeffer ...

Learn to ace your wedding dance and keep cool at a formal and in dance classes with this knock-out book that teaches you all about ballroom dancing, ballroom dance lessons ballroom dance costumes, ballroom dancing shoes, ballroom dance studio, ballroom dancing for kids and more. ... Leer más

$2.99 USD

Learn to ace your wedding dance and keep cool at a formal and in dance classes with this knock-out book that teaches you all about ballroom dancing, ballroom dance lessons ballroom dance costumes, ballroom dancing shoes, ballroom dance studio, ballroom dancing for kids and more.
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What the Eye Hears

A History of Tap Dancing

de Brian Seibert ...

The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms—along with jazz and musical comedy—created in America.Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Economist Best Book of 2015What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance criti... ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

The first authoritative history of tap dancing, one of the great art forms—along with jazz and musical comedy—created in America.Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Economist Best Book of 2015What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance criti...
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Talking Tap

A Discussion

de Terry Dill ...

An introduction to tap dancing through the language of the subject: what it is, why it is, how to use it. Terminology is organized and described by technique categories and listed by increasing difficulty. The common dance notation format used gradually builds the user's ability to read and write performance routines. Discussions include developing tap skills, use of dance notes, and rhythm ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

An introduction to tap dancing through the language of the subject: what it is, why it is, how to use it. Terminology is organized and described by technique categories and listed by increasing difficulty. The common dance notation format used gradually builds the user's ability to read and write performance routines. Discussions include developing tap skills, use of dance notes, and rhythm
... Leer más
MICHAEL JACKSON

Early Life, Career, Personal Life & Struggles, Legacy & Impact and All You Need to Know

de Ember Haven ...

Series series Music Legends
To know more about Michael Jackson, get a duplicate of this book by toggling the BUY BUTTON as soon as possible! ... Leer más

$8.18 USD

To know more about Michael Jackson, get a duplicate of this book by toggling the BUY BUTTON as soon as possible!
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The Dancer's Handbook

A Practical Guide to Reimagining Dance, Body, and Society by OFEN Co-Arts

de Gala Moody, Michael Carter ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
The Dancer’s Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimately familiar with its complexities.This comprehensive resource tackles themes like power dynamics, hierarchical structures, and the pervasive influences of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy as the “status quo” in the arts. This book delves into dismantling the status quo, ... Leer más

$51.99 USD

The Dancer’s Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimately familiar with its complexities.This comprehensive resource tackles themes like power dynamics, hierarchical structures, and the pervasive influences of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy as the “status quo” in the arts. This book delves into dismantling the status quo,
... Leer más
Tap Dancing at a Glance

de Jimmy Ormonde ...

You can learn tap dancing easily! This fantastic book's thirty-nine lessons will guide you to mastering the steps you've seen on stage. Each lesson is illustrated through the use of posed photographs and includes rhythm notation to aid your practice. Will the help of these lessons and some determined practice you'll be tap dancing within a month or two. Originally published in 1930, we are ... Leer más

$6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

You can learn tap dancing easily! This fantastic book's thirty-nine lessons will guide you to mastering the steps you've seen on stage. Each lesson is illustrated through the use of posed photographs and includes rhythm notation to aid your practice. Will the help of these lessons and some determined practice you'll be tap dancing within a month or two. Originally published in 1930, we are
... Leer más
Black Tap Dance and Its Women Pioneers

de Cheryl M. Willis ...

While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition. Who were these women? The author sought them out, interviewed them, and documented their stories for this book. ... Leer más

$21.39 USD

While tap dancers Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell were major Hollywood stars, and the rhythms of Black male performers such as the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson were appreciated in their time, Black female tap dancers seldom achieved similar recognition. Who were these women? The author sought them out, interviewed them, and documented their stories for this book.
... Leer más
The “Shim Sham”

National Anthem of Tap

de Russell P. Foreman Jr. ...

The authors objective is to capture these steps and unusual musical counts in written Dance Notes format, going to great lengths to break down the steps and insure the dancer has WEIGHT on the correct foot, etc, to accomplish a faithful execution of some tricky foot work complicated by some unusual musical dance counts. A corollary objective is to set the record straight, dispelling ALL variations ... Leer más

$8.69 USD

The authors objective is to capture these steps and unusual musical counts in written Dance Notes format, going to great lengths to break down the steps and insure the dancer has WEIGHT on the correct foot, etc, to accomplish a faithful execution of some tricky foot work complicated by some unusual musical dance counts. A corollary objective is to set the record straight, dispelling ALL variations
... Leer más
Becomings

Pregnancy, Phenomenology, and Postmodern Dance

de Johanna Kirk ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of their gender and physical abilities while pregnant. Across chapters, the artists discussed include Anna ... Leer más

$61.99 USD

This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of their gender and physical abilities while pregnant. Across chapters, the artists discussed include Anna
... Leer más
Dancing Motherhood

de Ali Duffy ...

Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance, ... Leer más

$54.99 USD

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance,
... Leer más
Ethical Agility in Dance

Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

Edición de Noyale Colin, Catherine Seago, Kathryn Stamp ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary ... Leer más

$56.99 USD

This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary
... Leer más
Kinetic Atmospheres

Performance and Immersion

de Johannes Birringer ...

This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, ... Leer más

$54.99 USD

This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture,
... Leer más
Beginning Tap Dance

de Lisa Lewis ...

Beginning Tap Dance introduces students to tap dance techniques and cultivates an appreciation of tap dance as a performing art. Focusing on novice dancers, experienced tap dancer and dance instructor Lisa Lewis offers step-by-step instruction to help beginning tap dancers match the beat of their enthusiasm to the rhythm of their feet!Designed for students enrolled in introductory tap dance ... Leer más

$29.69 USD

Beginning Tap Dance introduces students to tap dance techniques and cultivates an appreciation of tap dance as a performing art. Focusing on novice dancers, experienced tap dancer and dance instructor Lisa Lewis offers step-by-step instruction to help beginning tap dancers match the beat of their enthusiasm to the rhythm of their feet!Designed for students enrolled in introductory tap dance
... Leer más
Instruments of Embodiment

Costuming in Contemporary Dance

de Eric Mullis ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume designers, and engaging in practice-as-research. Topics discussed include the historical evolution of ... Leer más

$57.99 USD

Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume designers, and engaging in practice-as-research. Topics discussed include the historical evolution of
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The Essential Guide to Tap Dance

de Derek Hartley ...

From the propulsive rhythm of the African dancer, to the swinging ragtime of the American jazz age, tap dancing has evolved into a unique blend of cultural expression, improvisation and creativity, open to all ages and abilities. With clear step-by-step instructions, The Essential Guide to Tap Dance covers basic steps such as the shuffle, pick up and paddle, before building these into traditional ... Leer más

$21.79 USD

From the propulsive rhythm of the African dancer, to the swinging ragtime of the American jazz age, tap dancing has evolved into a unique blend of cultural expression, improvisation and creativity, open to all ages and abilities. With clear step-by-step instructions, The Essential Guide to Tap Dance covers basic steps such as the shuffle, pick up and paddle, before building these into traditional
... Leer más
Tap Talk, Tidbits, and Tips for Dilettante Tappers

The World's Only Completely Nonessential Guide to Tap Dancing

de Bernard M. Patten ...

If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open ... Leer más

$0.99 USD

If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open
... Leer más
The Art of TapTease

de Tammy Taps ...

This little ebook chronicles some of my time in a community of Tap Shoe Fetishists. For many years I produced amateur tap dance and shoe play videos for a fun community of admirers. If you want to know what TapTease is and how I started it, read on! ... Leer más

$5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This little ebook chronicles some of my time in a community of Tap Shoe Fetishists. For many years I produced amateur tap dance and shoe play videos for a fun community of admirers. If you want to know what TapTease is and how I started it, read on!
... Leer más
Floating Bones

A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

de Cynthia Roses-Thema ...

Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Leer más

$31.99 USD

Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic
... Leer más
Le regine della Belle Époque

de Mariangela Camocardi ...

Varia - saggio (117 pagine) - Donne, seduttrici e sciantose di fin de siecle. Una galleria delle spregiudicate protagoniste della Belle Époque che hanno lasciato una incisiva impronta nel periodo che dalla fin de siecle termina nel 1915, con la prima guerra mondiale.La Belle Époque: un lasso di tempo frizzante, mondano, modaiolo, in cui le donne manifestano in tutto il mondo reclamando la parità ... Leer más

$6.99 USD

Varia - saggio (117 pagine) - Donne, seduttrici e sciantose di fin de siecle. Una galleria delle spregiudicate protagoniste della Belle Époque che hanno lasciato una incisiva impronta nel periodo che dalla fin de siecle termina nel 1915, con la prima guerra mondiale.La Belle Époque: un lasso di tempo frizzante, mondano, modaiolo, in cui le donne manifestano in tutto il mondo reclamando la parità
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Le bal

Édition intégrale

de Irène Némirovsky ...

Le Bal décrit les tourments d'une adolescente de quatorze ans, Antoinette, qui entretient des rapports difficiles avec ses parents, parvenus de fraîche date, et spécialement avec sa mère. Celle-ci ayant refusé de la laisser assister au premier bal mondain qu'elle et son mari veulent donner, la jeune fille trouve à se venger cruellement. Aussi terrible qu'inattendue, la vengence d'Antoinette ... Leer más

$3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Le Bal décrit les tourments d'une adolescente de quatorze ans, Antoinette, qui entretient des rapports difficiles avec ses parents, parvenus de fraîche date, et spécialement avec sa mère. Celle-ci ayant refusé de la laisser assister au premier bal mondain qu'elle et son mari veulent donner, la jeune fille trouve à se venger cruellement. Aussi terrible qu'inattendue, la vengence d'Antoinette
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